Saturday, October 20, 2007

Poor Cinderella. She had such a wicked mother and her sisters were just horrid. How did she turn out so well? Any child treated so badly would be unattached, unlovable, and just as horrid as her step sisters (I may touch on this in detail next month). Well, since it is a fairy tale we will cut her some slack, and take from Cinderella's story some wonderful lessons to be gleaned. First of all her hands were hardly ever idle. The step sisters, however, never did anything but lay around and bark orders. They had ugly souls to match their ugly faces. Can we say "entitlement"?This is what happens to our young girls when responsibility is not taught. Idleness never leads to anything good. Idle hands lead to folly (it is a Proverb somewhere). Well, Little Miss Cinder...I mean Charlotte...has had some idleness going on lately. I took a lesson from Cinderella, and we went to work. Unlike Cinderella, we change out of our floor scrubbing clothes, but we do keep working....Also unlike Cinderella, Charlotte has a Mommy who worked right along with her. We accomplished much this morning and there was no "folly" to speak of! Everything is sparkly clean and smells wonderful!!

I miss having clothes lines, but I make do ;) Fresh clean floors and rugs!!! Nothing feels better! Our castle is clean, dinner is cooking and the hands in our castle are not idle. Folly will no longer reign in our kingdom!!!!!

Bren, that's awesome. I usually have a hard time with the "working alongside" my daughter. Mostly because I like to work alone, and give her jobs that I know she can do without me. I'll endeavor to be more patient. Obviously the rewards are worth the work!

Oh how I love this post!! AND I loved your clean house! There is something about a house in order that sets my soul into a peaceful state of mind!! Beautiful! And oh so true about idleness - even for grown up hands!

Oh Bren!!! Your home is gleaming!!!and is lovely too boot! Little Miss Cinder Charlotte didn't look like she minded working along side Mommy toooo much! Wanna come for a visit...my home is a little chaotic after a very busy weekend.HugsNiki

Nice house! I like your post. When I was a kid it felt like I was being ordered to do things. I like how you said you worked belong side Charlotte. (I wasn't abused and it did me no harm) Even today I don't mind housework so much if my husband is along side me helping. It's when I feel like Cinderella, everyone else at the ball that I hate it! I always think of that saying to myself, "the devil finds work for idle hands."

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